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Michael Palin - Author

Michael Palin established his reputation with MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS and RIPPING YARNS. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as THE MISSIONARY, A PRIVATE FUNCTION, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A FISH CALLED WANDA and, more recently, AMERICAN FRIENDS and FIERCE CREATURES. His television credits include two films for the BBC's GREAT RAILWAY JOURNEYS, the plays EAST OF IPSWICH and NUMBER 27, and Alan Bleasdale's GBH.

He has written books to accompany his six very successful travel series, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, POLE TO POLE, FULL CIRCLE, HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE, SAHARA and HIMALAYA. He is also the author of a number of children's stories, the play THE WEEKEND and the novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR.

Featured Books, with extracts, by Michael Palin

Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988Michael Palin
July 2010 Book of the Month. The second volume of Michael
Palin’s diaries following his time through the 80’s
when the pythons split up and Michael found himself entering a time
of...Format: Paperback - Released: 11/09/2014

Travelling to Work Diaries 1988-1998Michael Palin
The third volume of Michael Palin’s diaries taking in the
years 1988-1998, a period of huge change as he stumbled upon a
whole new area of interest – travel. The TV programmes and
books based on his journeys were an...Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/1970

BrazilMichael Palin
From the Venezuelan border and the forests of the Lost World, where
he encounters the Yanomami tribe and their ongoing territorial war
with the gold miners, Michael Palin explores this vast and
disparate nation in his inimitable way. He journeys...Format: Paperback - Released: 10/09/2013

The TruthMichael Palin
‘An ordinary man on an extraordinary adventure’ - The
Truth is a wonderful, heart-warming novel exploring the issues of
media manipulation, private lives and public persona, and the
balance of progress against environmental damage. A writer, barely
scraping a living...Format: Paperback - Released: 18/07/2013

The TruthMichael Palin
July 2012 Book of the Month. ‘An ordinary man on an
extraordinary adventure’ - The Truth is a wonderful,
heart-warming novel exploring the issues of media manipulation,
private lives and public persona,...Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2012

HimalayaMichael PalinA Special Edition of Himalaya by Michael Palin to celebrate
Orion's 20th anniversary.Winner of TV & Film
Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005. The
beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the
television series brought down...Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012

Halfway to Hollywood Diaries 1980 to 1988Michael PalinFeatured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 December
2009. Now this would be a test for those celebrities who
write their memoirs in between massages and manicures: keep a diary
every day and make it interesting. Not...Format: Hardback - Released: 17/09/2009

Around the World in Eighty DaysMichael Palin
This is Michael Palin’s first major expedition where he
decided to circumnavigate the world following, as closely as
possible, the route taken by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg.
28,000 miles covered and 14 countries we join Michael in his
eye-opening trip...Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009

Pole to PoleMichael Palin
Palin’s second journey finds him spending five months
travelling from Pole to Pole. He also chose great year to travel as
1991 saw the breaking of the USSR and apartheid ending in South
Africa and Michael finding himself in the...Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009

Full CircleMichael Palin
Michael describes this journey as the most ambitious and most
exhausting of all his trips and travelling around the Pacific Rim
certainly means you take in a variety of terrains and temperatures.
The author always seems to weed out the...Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009

New EuropeMichael Palin
In this new journey Michael Palin fills a void in his travels by
visiting 22 Eastern European countries, places which had had
limited access until the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the
1980’s. Many of the...Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2008

New EuropeMichael Palin
In this new journey Michael Palin fills a void in his travels by
visiting 22 Eastern European countries, places which had had
limited access until the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the
1980’s. Many of the...Format: Hardback - Released: 13/09/2007

Diaries 1969-1979 : The Python YearsMichael Palin
The Python years, or at least some of them. There is little dirt,
gossip or dirty dealings for Palin is a thoroughly nice man and
other than a few wild parties (which annoyed him) reports these
extraordinary years in a...Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2006

HimalayaMichael PalinWinner of TV & Film Book of the Year at the British
Book Awards 2005 The beautiful, glossy, illustrated
hardback that accompanied the television series brought down to a
text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of the colour photographs
grouped together. This...Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2005

HimalayaMichael PalinWinner of TV & Film Book of the Year at the British
Book Awards 2005 The beautiful, glossy, illustrated
hardback that accompanied the television series brought down to a
text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of the colour photographs
grouped together. This...Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2005

SaharaMichael Palin
The thought of travelling across the Sahara is not the most
appealing; sand, sand and more sand comes to mind but as usual
Michael Plain manages to find the weird and wonderful as he makes
the journey in extremes of...Format: Paperback - Released: 18/09/2003

Michael Palin's Hemingway AdventureMichael Palin
After writing his novel, about Hemingway, Palin decided he wanted
to know more about this fascinating man and so set off to visit the
places where Hemingway had lived and what had influenced him over
the years. His travels take...Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2001